Quotes About Coexistence

Louis Sébastien Mercier

It isn't a question of whether elephants can prevail over ants. It's a question of whether a particular elephant can dance. If it can, the ants must leave the dance floor.

Souls and bodies should go on together.

With inner peace, there would be no wars, no gangs, no terrorists, and no homeless.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

In Beauvoir's experience Darwin was way wrong. The fittest didn't survive. They were killed by the idiocy of their neighbors, who continued to bumble along oblivious.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Unlike the characters in the book, however, these different sorts of people don't seem to mix well. It is like the salad dressing Jessamyn makes: a little bit of olive oil, a squeeze of lemon, and some red wine vinegar. If whipped, they combine. But leave them to their own devices and they will sort themselves out again. I don't really understand this. When you have so many people, each one inevitably fascinating, why would you limit yourself to only those like you?

We don't have to accept each other's beliefs…but we do have to accept each other's right to believe them.

Science never failed to humble him, just as much as his faith, and he unequivocally believed that the two could exist side by side.

She knew, even at that young age, that you cannot separate good and evil cleanly, that they are conjoined twins sharing a single heart.

Maybe because I do not like the idea of my grandmother and someone like Josef still coexisting in this world.

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries.

We may not see eye to eye, but we can respect each other's opinions and find the truth in them. Perhaps in those honest conversations, instead of demonizing each other, we might see each other as imperfect humans, doing our best. —Jodi Picoult, March 2018

Can a person hold tightly to two thoughts that look, at first sight, as if they'd cancel each other out?

Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion? { Letter to Thomas Jefferson , May 19, 1821 }

Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation.

In life if you can't have the mind to tolerates others you will find life so difficult to survive.

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

The good man is the friend of all living things

The bird a nest the spider a web the human friendship

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other